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Economía subterránea en Colombia 1976-2003: una medición a partir de la demanda de efectivo

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  • Carlos A. Arango
  • Martha Misas
  • Enrique L�pez

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La economía subterránea (ES), definida de manerasuscinta como aquella asociada con actividades por fue-ra de las instituciones legales de un país, es de particularrelevancia en Colombia debido al alcance que tiene laeconomía del narcotráfico y la economía informal evasorade la legislación fiscal y laboral; esto es particularmenteimportante no sólo para el banco central, pues la ES tieneuna ingerencia directa en la demanda de efectivo, sinotambién por sus implicaciones fiscales e institucionales.En este trabajo se hace una revisión crítica del estado del arte sobre la estimación de la ES representado en los modelos estructurales:multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) y dynamic multiple indicators multiplecauses (DYMIMIC). En particular, se documenta el posible sesgo de variableomitida que estos pueden presentar en su estimación y las ventajas de repre-sentaciones más generales del tipo estado-espacio estimadas mediante filtrode Kalman, enfoque que es aplicado al caso colombiano, donde se parte deuna función de demanda de efectivo y se estima la dinámica y tamaño de la ESen el período 1976-2003. Debido a los limitados grados de libertad, se calcu-laron intervalos de confianza por medio de un procedimiento de bootstrappingpara establecer la imortancia de las distintas “causas” de la ES.

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  • Carlos A. Arango & Martha Misas & Enrique L�pez, 2006. "Economía subterránea en Colombia 1976-2003: una medición a partir de la demanda de efectivo," Revista ESPE - Ensayos Sobre Política Económica, Banco de la República, vol. 24(50), pages 154-211.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000107:002397
    DOI: 10.32468/Espe.5004
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    JEL classification:

    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance

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